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Flash Informatique EPFL: special issue on HPC

Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Flash Informatique EPFL 10/2010

Flash Informatique EPFL 10/2010

EPFL is dedicating this year’s last issue of its inhouse Flash Informatique to High Performance Computing.

In this special issue we will get a deep insight into some of the research using and

contributing to HPC going on at EPFL. In particular, several labs are working on energy efficiency of HPC hardware and infrastructure.

An overview of the computing facilities available to researchers is also given.

Here are direct links to the articles

CSCS Appointed by HPC Advisory Council to Center of Excellence

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, announced the formation of its regional Centers of Excellence, broadening the scope and mission of the Council´s programs throughout the world. The HPC Advisory Council Centers of Excellence will provide local support for the HPC Advisory Council´s programs, local workshops and conferences, as well as host local computing centers that can be used to extend such activities.

CSCS has been appointed as the first Center of Excellence in Europe. “One of the HPC Advisory Council´s main activities is community and education outreach, in particular, through enhancing the HPC knowledge-base around the world and exploring future solutions,” said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “The HPC Advisory Council Centers of Excellence are located worldwide and will extend the activities of the council into local areas and focus on the regional needs for furthering our HPC outreach activities.”

“We are pleased to be named as one the inaugural HPC Advisory Council´s Centers of Excellence, covering HPC research, outreach and educational activities within Europe,” said Hussein Nasser El-Harake at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre who serves as the Director of the HPC Advisory Council Center of Excellence in Switzerland. “As part of the HPC Advisory Council´s Center of Excellence, we look forward to advancing awareness of the beneficial capabilities of HPC to new users.”

For more information about the HPC Advisory Council, please visit www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com.

Next Events Organized by HP2C

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

In the next days and weeks the HP2C consortium is organizing different interesting talks at USI and CSCS:

Wednesday 18 August 2010 14:00 - Wednesday 25 August 2010 - 14:00
Multiple scales analyses and numerics for atmospheric flows
hosted by Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

Thursday 19 August 2010, 14:00 - 16:00
Cubic regularization algorithm and complexity issues for nonconvex optimization
hosted by Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

Wednesday 8 September 2010, 13:00 - 15:00
Extreme Performance Engineering: Petascale and Heterogeneous Systems
hosted by CSCS

You are cordially invited to participate to these talks.

Configuration Management with Puppet and Coupling it to Kickstart

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Here is the presentation of Valeri Markushin (PSI) on “Configuration management with puppet and coupling it to kickstart at PSI” he had at the last hpc-ch forum on Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods.

The goals of this talk are to discuss the OS deployment and management tools used at PSI, to outline main arguments and facts (contact me for details) and to show some PSI customization features.

Topics

  • Scientific Linux
  • Kickstart Installation
  • Puppet Management
  • Enhancing your Linux distribution

Slides (PDF) of the presentation »

Experiences with the Rocks Distribution for Cluster Deployment

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Dorian Krause (USI) presented at the last hpc-ch forum on “Operating Systems for HPC and Installation Methods” about “Experiences with the Rocks Distribution for Cluster Deployment“.

Presentation (PDF) »